Re: Please include the local gnulib modules in releases

[Michael Pratt]

Hi Bruno,

Thanks for making a patch to save us some time.


On Monday, October 14th, 2024 at 05:23, Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> wrote:

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> Michael Pratt wrote:
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> > What's needed is just the "modules" files which are missing
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> No, the gl/lib/ and gl/tests/ subdirectories are input to gnulib-tool as well.
> Not only gl/modules/.
> 
> And you should list the files to add to the tarball, not directories.


To clarify, I was referring to the fact that the gl/lib/ and gl/tests/
files do exist in the tarball already, but in the lib and tests directories.
I used the word "needed" to refer to the content
that was strictly not already there in any form.
Then, with some manual copying, the results would be the same,
but otherwise, the data doesn't exist in the contents.

I also imagine a possible feature (or option? or when --force is passed)
for gnulib-tool to look for the files in the lib and tests directories
for whatever is missing in the local_dir/lib and local_dir/tests directories,
so that, for example, if only gl/modules files were added to EXTRA_DIST,
gnulib-tool can assume that the files of the modules were installed already.

Then, no one would have to have a second copy of the files anyway,
or have to make sure they are specifically in that local directory
in order for gnulib-tool to identify them and continue.

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MCP